Tomorrow (Thursday) I'm giving a talk for MEER called "Carbon Removal Won't Scale in Time." You've heard me make the timeline argument before. But I think you should attend, and here's why:

We've gotten good at talking about earth system tipping points like coral reef collapse, permafrost melt, and AMOC shutdown. But society has its own tipping points too!

❓ Do you think we'll have the capacity to solve climate change when we hit 2°C and food systems start breaking?

❓ Will democracies maintain the willpower to act when populist movements gain power in response to mass migration?

❓ Will our economic order survive a collapse of insurance markets from flooding, wildfires, and extreme storms?

I worry about these quite a bit.

My argument: we need to stabilize conditions now so we can maintain the capacity to decarbonize and remove excess CO2. Stabilization isn't Plan B. It's how Plan A succeeds.

Come join! Thursday January 8, 11am PT / 2pm ET: tinyurl.com/meertalk